WPI has merit, if you do the optional supplement you might have a shot at the Foisie Scholarship, it is full tuition.
UNH has merit. The Presidential Scholarship won’t get you down to 20,000/year, but they do award two full tuition scholarships each year to freshman engineering students. You have to be accepted early and submit an extra essay by a certain date. Beautiful New England campus.
OP is a junior, not a senior, but it could be helpful to look at specific scholarship applications now to see if any fine-tuning to ECs can be done in the next year before applying.
Can you work full time next summer and save the money for college?
UMASS has partial scholarships, not sure how competitive.
@Madison85 That’s the plan, but my current job (I help teach science/engineering classes at a local startup) is for minimum, so it wouldn’t make a huge dent. I worked full time for a lot of last summer, and didn’t make much in the grand scheme of things. Is it worth looking for a better paying job (It probably won’t be related to my interests though)?
@NorthernMom61 I believe I should have the Adams scholarship (top 25% state exams scores in each district get it, mine were almost perfect), meaning that I’d only really be paying for room and board at UMasss… I was just wondering about other options so that I didn’t miss out on opportunities otherwise
Northeastern was mentioned, you have a good chance for merit at U Pittsburgh.
U Toledo, Ohio State and U Cincinnati all give merit, and I think the engineering dept has separate scholarships you can apply to as well.
During this last admission cycle, George Washington gave my wannabe engineering students merit awards of $30k per year. Also go on the FIRST website for FRC and they list scholarships offered to first students. GW does and it allows you to stack it with the GW merit in years past. Some colleges list some huge awards for FIRST students If you are thinking ME, then don’t forget to apply to the ASME FIRST Clark scholarships which is $5K. About 40 students a year apply and 13-14 are awarded each year. The link is on the FIRST Website.
I’ll be curious to see what MA scholarships look like once the schools redistribute costs. Right now tuition is VERY low but additional fees can be killers.
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Good point. There are “free tuition” awards, but since tuition is so low that means nothing because the “fees” are $11k per year and the merit doesn’t cover that.
I live in a neighboring state and a number of kids got scholarships at UMass. In every case I know of, the tuition awards included both tuition and fees. YMMV, of course…but for some, at least, it’s not JUST the tuition in the awards…but the fees also.
@thumper1 good to hear that there are some getting fees covered as well.
The one award that we hear a lot about here on CC is the John and Abigail Adams scholarship and it doesn’t cover fees…just tuition
Outside of Mass/New York, but UVM has merit based scholarships and it is a gorgeous campus and location.
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UVM is a very expensive public school for an OOS student ($50,310 on campus), so just consider what the starting price is before any merit money is factored in.
Hi! I wonder what is the SAT requirement for the Swanson School of Engineering, as I saw it said 1470 (CR + Math) on their website. That’s so hard though!
That’s part of their guarantee program for people with high stats. Not everyone has such high stats and gets in under that guarantee.
You should apply for the Park Scholarship at North Carolina State University. They have an excellent Engineering program - last check, only second to MIT in the number of Engineering majors offered. Great public/private partnerships there, excellent program. Do some research. Self nominate and apply.